title: Porous protein crystals as reaction vessels.
abstract: Porous protein crystals have the potential to provide new porous materials due to their unique chemical environments composed of amino acid residues periodically exposed at the surface of the solvent channels in the crystal lattice. This enables accumulation of external compounds in special arrangements by metal coordination interactions or by chemical modifications. This article presents a review of advances in the recently established field of porous protein crystals.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta-cho 4259-B55, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan. tueno@bio.titech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueno
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D056831:Coordination Complexes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D003460:Crystallization; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures; D016062:Porosity; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012997:Solvents
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D056831:Coordination Complexes; D008670:Metals; D011506:Proteins; D012997:Solvents
keywords: bioinorganic chemistry; biominerals; porous materials; protein assembly; protein structures